twitter.senator: Senator Information Data

twitter.senatorR Documentation

Senator Information Data

Description

Contains information about each US Senator in the Twitter network analysis from QSS Section 5.2.3.

Usage

twitter.senator

Format

A data frame with 91 rows and 4 variables:

screen_name

character: Twitter screen name

name

character: name of senator

party

character: party (D = Democrat, R = Republican, I = Independent)

state

character: state abbreviation

Details

See QSS Table 5.4.

References

  • Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

  • Pablo Barberá; Birds of the Same Feather Tweet Together: Bayesian Ideal Point Estimation Using Twitter Data. Political Analysis 2015; 23 (1): 76-91. doi: 10.1093/pan/mpu011


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